'At the end of the day, these are children and they've made a mistake,' Clancy said at a news conference on Wednesday. The girls' parents were contacted by investigators and the students have been asked to verify whether they are featured in any of the photos.Ĭounseling was being provided on Friday to the affected girls, according to WCVB. Investigators say the file containing the photos was called, “I prolly had ur pics,” which was also Berlin’s senior quote in the 2015 North Penn High School yearbook.īerlin allegedly admitted to creating the Dropbox account, gathering the explicit photos and sending out links to the account during an interview with police.Duxbury Police Chief Matthew Clancy said it appears the selfies were sent to boyfriends and there is no indication any of the photos were taken of the girls without their consent.Īuthorities added that some of the photos appear to be fake, according to CBS Boston.
The registration information for the Dropbox account was that of Berlin’s, according to police. Police interviewed several people and executed search warrants, one of which returned results from the Dropbox account containing the explicit photos, investigators said. Investigators say they identified other people who received the images prior to Berlin but it was Berlin who actually compiled the photos he collected from various sources on his Dropbox account. Police say they found links connected to Berlin’s Dropbox account that were sent to others to view the explicit photos.
Berlin was a student at North Penn High School at the time of the incident but has since graduated, according to investigators. Officials later determined Berlin was the one who posted the photos on Dropbox. Investigators learned the website containing the photos was associated with, a website that allows users to store and share digital files. More students came forward with the same allegations sparking an investigation from several neighboring police departments. On March 7, a teen girl told Ambler Borough Police she found a website showing numerous sexually explicit images of current or former female students at North Penn High School in Towamencin Township, many under the age of 18. A Montgomery County teen was arrested after he allegedly posted numerous nude photos of high school girls on, a file-sharing service.īrandon Berlin, 18, of Montgomery Township, was arrested and charged with transmission of sexually explicit images by minor.
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